WHAT INDUSTRY LEADERS SAY…
Michael J.
Herrera DDS
“I would like to make a brief professional recommendation for a course that has the potential to change your patient’s health, as well as your families and your own personal wellness.
The Airway Mini Residency gives attendees a more thorough understanding of what you see every day during your clinical treatment for your patients . You will realize that there is a reason why patients are wearing down their dentitions , destroying your carefully placed restorations and complaining of TMD and muscle pain. You’ll also learn why they have acid erosion, unexplained anxiety and a pronounced gag reflex.
Are you ready to learn a completely new way of seeing what clinical symptoms can tell you regarding your patients health ? Then you need to take this mini-residency. Don’t be left behind when the dental profession steps up to be a leader in managing airway disorders.”
Tom Colquitt DDS Past President AARD
“I’ve practiced dentistry since 1970. Years of continuing education including intensive gnathological training in the
anatomy and function of the stomatognathic system resulted in a high level of comfort in our daily practice. Learning the use of mandibular advancement/stabilization devices from an old friend/schoolmate/colleague Keith Thornton, who developed the Thornton Adjustable Positioner (TAP) while screening and monitoring progress with oximetry led, 7 years ago, to an adjunct professorship position on the faculty in the Sleep Fellowship training department at LSU medical school, where I’ve attended weekly Grand Rounds sleep medicine lectures and lecture twice a year to the sleep faculty, staff, and residents. So airway issues have been a part of our practice since the 1990s.
4 years ago I was eating my lunch at the Congress of the American Section of the International Academy of Gnathology in San Antonio.
Then Mark Cruz sat down next to me with his plate and said something like, “I hear you’re involved in Dental Sleep Medicine.” Nothing in my life has been the same since that “chance encounter”, although I now know there’s no such thing as a coincidence. I also now know that the term “Sleep Medicine” is a short-sighted term that should be banished from future conversations if we, as a profession are going to finally accede to our true role as physicians of the stomatognathic system.
Studying with Mark and Barry Raphael and their great roster of speakers in the Airway Mini-Residency has changed not only my daily
thinking process but has transformed our daily practice. Thanks to what we’ve put into practice from what I’ve learned in the AMR, in casual social encounters with folks I don’t even know well, I keep hearing “I hear you’re saving lives.”
If you’re totally satisfied by your current knowledge base and have an inherent fear of the “curse of knowledge”, then avoid enrolling in the Airway Mini-residency (AMR) as you would avoid being exposed to the Ebola virus!
But if you’re ready to fulfill your true calling in the future of our profession in which we shall shortly supersede our medical brethren as the key players in the total health of our patients, I strongly suggest you enroll in the AMR as soon as possible. Your life will
never be the same, and your patients will be the beneficiaries of hatever sacrifices you must make to learn what their real problems are and how to help them return to wellness.”
Alfred Marquez DDS
our paradigm and create that “Aha” moment in our dental practices. This is such a course!
For the novice in Airway, you will come away with clear what, why and how’s of Airway Dentistry. For the seasoned
Airway Dentist, you will be able to connect the dots, cross the t’s, and dot the i’s of an airway practice; you will come
away with an implementable, practical understanding of Airway. From the why did the airway develop as it did, to the
how do I treat, and finally how do I get paid for what I do; you will get it all!! This is a course for every dentist, no matter at what stage of the Airway game you are at!”
Ken Ochi DDS
“I just wanted to write to express my appreciation for creating the Airway Mini Residency (AMR) that I attended this past year. What an educational experience you have put before us! It is a paradigm shift in the way dentists should look at their patients. In the course, you showed us all the signs and symptoms that have been staring at me(and all entists) over my 30 plus years of practice. And I had ignorantly missed the need to look at those symptoms and take action for my patients’greater good. Fortunately I am looking at those signs and symptoms now and improving the quality of my patients’ lives.Thank you for your encompassing, methodical, pithy program. It was clear from the first day that your passion for the airway is contagious!
I look forward to continuing to interact with this group of clinicians that attended with me.Thank you.”
Barbara Mallonee DDS
“I want to extend my gratitude to Mark and Barry for putting on a very enlightening, informative and frankly career changing Airway Mini Residency. Through the residency I have gained valuable information on the recognition and treatment of this epidemic we call breathing disorders, far beyond OSA. Our profession has been shamefully lacking in this type of training which should be mandatory in all dental schools. You have opened my eyes to better truly understanding the conditions we
see every day but have either ignored, or mistaken common for normal. I believe it is our duty as dentists to learn this
Laurel Morello DDS
“Airway Mini Residency presented a unique and informative perspective to airway management and treatment starting initially and very mportantly with understanding the evolution of craniofacial growth and development and then identifying signs of aberrant craniofacial growth and evelopment on airway competency through genetic and epigenetic factors.
individual participant case presentations enhanced confidence levels when making diagnosis and treatment decisions. This residency is a must do for the serious airway integrated practice. It has my highest recommendation.”